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[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

So my school finally move me into my new apt after having to live on the school grounds for 4 weeks.

The apt is okay and spacious but it has a silverfish nest (I sprayed 1 whole can of bug spray with closed doors and windows for three days and they still come back,) the bolier doesn't work and I have no running hot or cold water.

So my shiljangnim at school is an utter alcoholic who is drunk from 8.30am onwards, reeks of booze, can barely stand up straight and staggers everywhere. All the teachers are fed up with him but the VP and principal won't do anything.

So yesterday I begrudgingly gave him the key to my apt so he could go and sort out the problems. By 4.30pm he hasn't returned to school and my handler tries for an hour to contact him to no avail. We go to the appt superintendant and get the spare key. I naively expect to walk into a nice clean apt sans bugs and with running H and C water.

Instead nothing has been fixed and the shiljangnim has opened my new gas stove, hooked it up to the gas and cooked himself a pot of ramyun which he has left half eaten in the middle of the kitchen floor!

I go to the living room and find a 3/4 empty bottle of soju next to the armchair and a spat on cigarette butt (same brand he smokes) on the floor and another in a spit filled soju cap on the desk.

So he basically used my apt to get wasted and has so little respect for me that he didn't even clean up!

Got to school today and my handler told the VP who told the Principal. I went in the common room to make my coffee and heard the VP, Princiapl and gym teacher talking about it and looked at me and burst out laughing. They obviously must have known I knew what they were talking about as the conversation was littered with 'Shiljangnim, soju, tambae and Dweaimorigukbap apartuh...'

Just stood there lughing at me as I made my coffee.

What an anti-display of manners and curtiousness. Lovely.

[Old Gil]

Refuse to come into work until you get an apology, in public.

[chris_J2]

The janitor at my old elementary school, was fired by the Principal, for allowing the windows to be stoned/broken, by the high school boys over the weekend. My coteacher was stunned, & said there is a long line of job applicants who would love a cushy job as a janitor. The replacement janitor was less tolerant of my staying back after 5pm, than the one who was fired.

[Samurai Blur]

Omg... It may just be because I'm still a young college student and need to mature more, but I'd have probably done something that would have got me fired or deported.
So, what came of it? Did they actually do something about it or leave you to clean up after him and let him get away with it?
Omg... I'm sorry that happened to you man. Makes my blood boil just reading it.

[eamo]

That's pretty bad.

Have you tended to allow being mistreated in the past? Sometimes if Koreans smell weakness they won't bother listening to any requests or complaints.

Many Korea managers or bosses don't really put a lot of effort into doing "what's right" unless someone makes them.....they really only bother doing what they absolutely have to do.

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

[eamo]

[oskinny1]

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

Principal apologised to me at lunch today. He also looked at the VP and I heard him mutter 'Shiljangnim ModEdit...' or something like that...

I think the laughter might have been their way of trying to get me to lighten up or help me get over it or something... sometimes Koreans laugh at moments we deem inapropriate but it has a different meaning....

I still think the janitor is an arse though who shouldn't be working drunk at an elementary school and also driving wasted to and from work....

[fermentation]

[fortysixyou]

[redaxe]

[Bog Roll]

He would have even got past the front door - simple as that!

[Underwaterbob]

Janitor? I didn't know the occupation existed in Korea.

[Xuanzang]

More like the school's fixer or "handyman". Not all of them are so handy.